I remember Ashley messaging me while she was drunk and celebrating EOFY with various work people to complain about poor treatment from a jealous old nag.  At the time I was sitting in a hotel room in Kyoto while Anna slept, bored and watching, I think, Jurassic Park.

-5 July 2017

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I remember finding a Gudetama cafe in Osaka, and then, later, of course I watched a number of YouTube oddities when I got home concerning that very depressed little egg.

-4 July 2017

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I remember Anna’s pure joy at visiting the ramen museum in Osaka and being able to make her own cup noodles (which we still have, sealed, never to be eaten even though, at some point, pre-expiry, we could have).

-3 July 2017

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I remember endless yakitori skewers in Osaka, with my favourites being chicken thigh, neck, heart, liver, skin – all of the good bits which were never served back in Brisbane, Australia (2021 Update – Bird’s Nest in Fortitude Valley and West End serve these skewers.  There may be other places).  And the endless beers with their enormous heads, drunk by Anna and I from tiny izekayas scattered around the Dōtonbori area.

-2 July 2017

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I remember a Western-style cafe in Dotonbori which had an enormous map of the World up on the wall, huge really, with the prime coffee growing regions of the world identified and little text boxes jutting from each space, and instead of information about the geographic area or coffee type grown, instead there was lorem ipsum…

-1 July 2017

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I remember the strange area of Osaka called Amerikamura, where African Americans are paid to stand outside stores and encourage people to come in and experience ‘true America’.

-30 June 2017

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I remember Dotonbori, the Glicko Man, and wandering the streets of early morning Namba while drinking canned cold coffee.  My wife, and the city, slept.

-29 June 2017

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I remember leaving Brisbane early in the morning, and then eating sashimi and sushi in a tiny restaurant in Sennichimae in Osaka by the time it was night.  This by Jetstar, via Cairns, with two (minor) flight upgrades, and a (foolish) $150 taxi ride from the Osaka airport to our hotel.

-28 June 2017

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I remember seeing a lot more frogs in the backyard as a child.  They don’t seem to be around any more.  I lived a couple of hundred kilometres more North, but surely that doesn’t matter all that much?

-27 June 2017

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remember playing Settlers of Catan with Anna and her siblings, and her sister’s husband (then, I think, her boyfriend), and how outrageously competitive Anna and I were together, to the point where we regularly exploded at and argued with one another in front of everyone.

-26 June 2017

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